I'm putting together a new kit with 8 dual zone tom pads. As I get ready for it (5 new Laurin Pads arrive next week!) I'm discovering that none of my sound sources have grouped tom sounds with more than 4 toms.
I have a Strike Module, DM10, NI Studio Drummer, Abbey Road Drums and Battery. All of these have a maximum of 4 toms per kit. I have tried adding two and 3 versions of samples and tuning them up and down, but I'd really like to find a couple of good sound 8 tom kits.
Most of the VSTs I've seen online only picture 3-5 toms. Full lists of sounds are not always available on line (and there are so many expansions out there its hard to search every one.
Two Questions:
Any suggestions on sample packs are VSTs with many toms?
Any suggested search terms to use to find these more easily? ("drum vsts with 8 toms" yields lost of results about 8" toms)
In the STRIKE Module there is a Gretch Maple kit that has 6 Toms (8,10,12,13,14,16) in brush.. mallets..sticks..
BJYam black kit has 5..then you can add the 4 rototoms (8,10,12,14)
You can use remove/turn off all the FX and start with a dry base kit and build off of that.
The majority of Vst/Software is for 5-6 (3-4 toms) pc kits and a few for 7-8 pc (5-6 toms)
You typically run multiple instances of a Vst in a DAW if you want larger kits with toms then tune..or add a percussion expansion , rototoms etc.
Very few support large kits like
Toontrack SD3 which allows a lot of cymbals or
Fxpansion BFD3 which has the ability to build a single instance/kit up to 64 pc.
DrumForge has 6 Tom support,
Samplers and
Drumshotz.
There are 3rd party preset developers like
Benoni Studios that made a number of Double Bass,6 Tom presets which require multiple expansions installed but there are very few expansion packs for "Monster" Kits with a high number of sampled toms as the cost for the additional sampling etc isn't justified as the demand isn't there especially considering Vst /software isn't actually intended for E-Kits ,but for Studio use.
Over the years support has been added(mapping) due to demand and 99.9 of E-Kits don't support kits of that size unless you start splitting triggers, adding additional modules/TMI's etc..which the vast majority of E-Kits users don't.There is also copyright/Licensing..most of the Monster Kits that are asked for specifically are "Artist" Kits.
You'll find some Artist and/or Producer presets available,but there are also a lot of pseudonyms being used by Vst/Software developers.
You'll see very few advertised as actual Artist kits,some are available through a few like
Platinum Samples or
Sonic Reality with FXpansion or Kontakt having the most support.
Sonic Reality released a
Neil Peart DW Custom based on the "Snakes and Arrows" Kit that has 8 toms..it is available in multiple formats.
There's also a
Terry Bozzio Kit that consists of 6 rototoms..and numerous Artists available on
esoundz including (7) Tom Kits..
Bill Cobham Kit (7) Toms and
Seventies EJ(Elton John) Kit (7) TomsThe
Sonic Reality Infinite Player (Kontakt) was a limited release but is included with some expansions.
EDIT:Added links..Fixed Neil..not NEAL!!
